Old train station (Zeven)
The main station in Zeven and the Rotenburg – Zeven railway line were officially inaugurated on October 2, 1906. The Zeven – Bremervörde section was officially put into operation on May 15, 1908. Since November 24, 2000, the former station building has housed the old station youth center of the city of Zeven .
location
The former street “Bahnhofszufuhr” in Zeven is now called “Am Bahnhof”. Today's youth center "Alter Bahnhof" is at number 6.
history
Zeven was only connected to the railway network relatively late. The tracks reached the town from Rotenburg in 1906. And in 1908 the first train from Bremervörde arrived. The commissioning of the line brought with it a lively trade. After just a few months, a regular freight train had to be used. In addition, six passenger trains commuted between Rotenburg and Bremervörde every day. The Zevener's hopes for the construction of a planned east-west connection were partially fulfilled only with the construction of the WZTE Wilstedt-Zeven-Tostedter Railway (WZTE), when in 1917 during the First World War a locomotive - filled with soldiers - was the first to use freight wagons on the small railway line the WZTE pulled. Railroad lines began to die in the early 1960s, when more and more traffic shifted to the streets. The Bremervörde – Zeven connection was used as a siding. A revival of rail traffic in the region followed after the founding of the EVB in 1981.
The restaurant in what was then the Reichsbahnhof was certainly set up soon after the station opened. The last innkeeper in the Zevener Bundesbahnhof ("Am Bahnhof 6") was Bernhard Wedler. On May 29, 1989, EVB took over the express goods handling and on June 30, all previous services of the Federal Railroad in Zeven in a "Service Center" in the Zeven-Süd station. The transport of luggage in Zeven was carried out by the Deutsche Bundespost.
The building ensemble of the old Zevener Bahnhof included the two now demolished buildings (house no. 294 and 295 on the street “Bahnhofszufuhr”), which served as apartments for railway employees of various ranks (from the youth center “Alter Bahnhof” towards “Bahnhofstraße” on the right Page). In addition, in the address book for the Zeven district from 1928, house no. 293 the entry "Boost, Karl, Bahnhofswirt".
The building of today's youth center also housed the company Hansa-Landhandel, which moved its headquarters to the Nord-West-Ring in Zeven. This made it possible to plan to use the property in the vicinity of the vocational schools in Zeven and the St. Viti-Gymnasium Zeven as a youth center. Before that, the municipal youth facility was housed in the basement of the primary school on Scheeßeler Strasse - today's Gosekamp primary school - from March 25, 1982 until 2000.
literature
- Hinrich Brunkhorst / Fritz Busse : The old Zeven in pictures of its time. Verlag JF Zeller KG, Zeven, 1980
- Thorsten Kratzmann: “Hurray! Hurray! The railway is here “100 years of Bremervörde railway station - 90 years of rail connection to Zeven. Zevener Zeitung of October 3, 1998, page 14.
- Andreas Kurth: Will the young people in the city on the forest finally get a new domicile after years in the basement? Zevener Zeitung of August 6, 1998, page 13.
- Monica Lohmeyer-Wulf: EVB takes over ticket sales and seat reservations in Zeven. Excerpt from the Zevener Zeitung in the archive of the Samtgemeinde Zeven, 1989 (?)
- City of Zeven (Ed.): Zeven. Kloster Flecken city. JF Zeller KG, Zeven 1980
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Coordinates: 53 ° 17 ′ 1.2 ″ N , 9 ° 16 ′ 44.1 ″ E